Further, the idea that Jews benefit from instiutional privilege has begun to gain some traction within the mainstream left.

Maital Friedman wrote an op-ed at JTA back in January, on Martin Luther King Day, which asked Jews to be “aware of racial inequality and of the daily privileges we [Jews] enjoy that others cannot”. On April 7th, The New Republic published an article, titled ‘Does the Holocaust discount Jewish white privilege?’, which – though narrowly rejecting the idea of ‘Jewish privilege” as such – argued that even Jews whose relatives were killed in the Holocaust can now be beneficiaries of ‘white privilege’.

The New Republic

Though we’ve responded previously at length to the suggestion that Jews and/or Israelis enjoy unfair advantages, in monitoring media coverage of Israel year after year, we’d argue that Palestinians are – in many respects – uniquely privileged.

Here’s our list of the advantages (privileges) of waking up in the morning as a Palestinian – the daily effects of Palestinian privilege.

3. Terrorist attacks by members of your community against Jewish civilians are often contextualized, rationalized or evendefended as the “understandable” behavior of an oppressed (underprivileged) group.

4. Anti-historical narratives you routinely peddle to the media, disputing the Jewish connection to the Land of Israel, are legitimized.

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How coincidental is it that neo-Nazis choose America’s Independence Day (Saturday, July 4th) for this disgusting revival of the 1930s! They get two hits for the price of one against their favorite targets.

Most obvious missing privilege from the list: Irrespective of your appalling behaviour (terrorism, antisemtic hatred etc) you will continue to receive billions of dollars of funding from Western tax-payers and you will not even be held accountable for how you spend it (which is primarily to pay salaries of convicted terrorists, for terrorist infrastructure, and to support the illegitimate and undemocratic PA).